John McCain actually said...

"The service chiefs -- and we will be talking about this on the floor -- all of them have said they wanted a complete study about the effect on morale and battle readiness."

"We're going to go through hopefully a yearlong study that will hopefully also have the feelings of the men and women who are serving."

"The day that the -- the leadership of the military comes to me and says, 'Senator, we ought to change the policy,' then I think we ought to consider seriously changing it, because those leaders in the..."

"If they can show me the evidence that it needs to be changed, obviously, then, I would give that serious consideration."